This list is not intended to be comprehensive; it only offers some suggestions for excellent things to read, any of which could be helpful and all of which are well-written.
Books on Writing
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace – Joseph M. Williams The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White The Norton Field Guide to Writing – Richard Bullock and Maurine Daly Goggin
The link provides only parts of the book; I recommend acquiring a print copy. The Elements of Reasoning – Edward P.J. Corbett and Rosa A. Eberly
Collections
Rhetorical Choices: a Reader for Writers – Gilyard, Holdstein, & Schuster Reading the World: Ideas that Matter - Michael Austin Speeches That Changed the World - Simon Sebag Montefiore Complete Essays – George Orwell Tremendous Trifles - G.K. Chesterton Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: 20 Dynamic Essays by Today’s Top Professionals - the editors of Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction
Fiction and Poetry
Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer The Arabian Nights – trans. by Daniel Heller-Roazen, Muhsin Mahdi and Husain Haddawy Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card The Once and Future King – T.H. White The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien Southern Road – Sterling Brown The Iliad and The Odyssey – Homer Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Books etc.
This list is not intended to be comprehensive; it only offers some suggestions for excellent things to read, any of which could be helpful and all of which are well-written.Books on Writing
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace – Joseph M. WilliamsThe Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
The Norton Field Guide to Writing – Richard Bullock and Maurine Daly Goggin
The link provides only parts of the book; I recommend acquiring a print copy.
The Elements of Reasoning – Edward P.J. Corbett and Rosa A. Eberly
Collections
Rhetorical Choices: a Reader for Writers – Gilyard, Holdstein, & SchusterReading the World: Ideas that Matter - Michael Austin
Speeches That Changed the World - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Complete Essays – George Orwell
Tremendous Trifles - G.K. Chesterton
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: 20 Dynamic Essays by Today’s Top Professionals - the editors of Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction
Fiction and Poetry
Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster BujoldThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
The Arabian Nights – trans. by Daniel Heller-Roazen, Muhsin Mahdi and Husain Haddawy
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Southern Road – Sterling Brown
The Iliad and The Odyssey – Homer
Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson